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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is described as Harry’s “femme de ménage” in his descriptions of Paris while dictating to his companion?
(a) Elise
(b) Sara
(c) Michelle
(d) Marie

2. How are the flashbacks into Harry’s past delineated from the rest of the narrative in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) They are in quotations
(b) They are italicized
(c) They are in boldface
(d) They are in parentheses

3. In Harry’s flashback to living in the woodcutter’s house, he recalls sleeping on mattresses filled with what?
(a) Palm leaves
(b) Beech leaves
(c) Juniper leaves
(d) Tobacco leaves

4. Who is described as having owned the guns in the log house that Harry describes to his companion as she dictates in the second half of the story?
(a) Harry’s father
(b) Harry’s uncle
(c) Harry’s grandfather
(d) Harry’s great-grandfather

5. Compton tells Harry at the end of the story that he’ll have to stop where to refuel?
(a) Paris
(b) Arusha
(c) Zurich
(d) Cairo

Short Answer Questions

1. When Harry thinks back to the railway station in Karagatch, he recalls that he was leaving what geographical area after the retreat?

2. In one of Harry’s flashbacks, he recalls talking to a member of the Kaiser Jägers above the saw-mill about the attack on Perticara and where?

3. Schwarzwald is a wooded mountain range located in the southwest of what country?

4. Harry tells the woman in the beginning of the story that the vultures appeared the day that what happened?

5. Where does Harry describe renting a trout stream after the war as his companion dictates?

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